The War on Democracy R
Never believe anything until it is officially denied
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Bullfrog Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | John Pilger & Chris Martin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
GEORGE BUSH loves to lecture us about how his war on terror is all about preserving freedom and spreading democracy. What he doesn't tell us is how for the past 50 years, the US has covertly tried to crush both in a bid to control South America
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Daily Mirror (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
The show is ultimately ruined by its ophidian writer/presenter Pilger, who is something of an acquired taste
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
Pilger's portentous voiceover and intrusions into shot bespeak an excruciating vanity
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
While this diligently researched film cogently moves from Latin American nation to Latin American nation, explaining the strangely predictable cycle of uprisings among these countries, it's ultimately hard to identify the audience it addresses.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
John Pilger's angry story of how a rapacious US covertly brutalised its Latin American neighbours should be a compelling documentary. And so it often is, despite being marred by a dewy-eyed interview with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
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Guardian
A dynamic and emotionally effective diatribe against global capitalism's role in undermining popular second or third-world democracies
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Time Out
Yet with all its flaws and its righteous tone (thanks to Pilger's pervasive narration and on-camera presence), the film tackles the Achilles Heel of American politics: its historically abysmal foreign policy failures
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Urban Cinefile
Product Description:
The groundbreaking leftwing journalists-cum-filmmakers Chris Martin and John Pilger helm the muckraking social activist documentary THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY - an unflinching dissection and evisceration of U.S. policies in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. Beginning with interviewee Hugo Chávez's U.S.-suppressed attempts at Venezuelan social reform, and moving forward to such events as the 1954 CIA-backed overthrow of Jacobo Guzman in Guatemala and the U.S. government's decision to support the death squads in El Salvador during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Pilger and Martin hauntingly demonstrate the United States' aggressive attempts to thwart and squelch democratic movements in the Third World. Additional interviewees include: U.S. congressman José Serrano, former U.S. ambassador to Chilé Nathaniel Davis and historian Greg Grandin, among others.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,371
- UPC: 761326751525
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